Christmas Lecture – Sums: They’re Math Magic
Full details and booking link are here … https://coventry.bcs.org/fun-maths-for-school-pupils-teachers-and-you/ Please click ‘Continue Reading’ to open this post to get the hot link. ↓
Bonus for CSI-COP – Your Right to Privacy Online
Please check out https://coventry.bcs.org/csi-cop-your-right-to-privacy-online/ where you will find a link to a 9 minute TED talk ‘How to preserve your private life in the age of social media’ as a taster to this month’s meeting.
How to get a career in Quantum Computing – our meeting broke all records
Previously, our record for a Branch Meeting stood at 72 attendees, when we had a “papers evening” at The University of Warwick, but last night we set a new record! At the peak we had 104 users in the zoom meeting, and one of those (at Coventry University) was our…
IEEEXtreme global challenge – Update
IEEEXtreme is a global challenge in which teams of IEEE Student members – advised and proctored by an IEEE member, and often supported by an IEEE Student Branch – compete in a 24-hour time span against each other to solve a set of programming problems. Coventry Branch Committee member Yuri…
Postponement of September 2022 event to 28th September
Following the demise of Her Majesty The Queen, BCS has taken the business decision to cancel or postpone all events taking place between 9 September and 27 September; the National Mourning period. Accordingly, we have postponed the event from Wednesday 21st September 2022 until Wednesday 28th September 2022. The new…
The Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Ltd – an early-adopter of computers
One of the Coventry branch members helped a colleague with a new book about the history of “The Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Ltd” (BMMO) which was originally registered in 1904 and began running horse buses in Birmingham and surrounding areas. It became widely known as “Midland Red”, and was…
March 2022 meeting – Getting into Business and Consultancy – video
The video of our March meeting is available from https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2022/march/webinar-getting-into-business-and-consultancy-coventry-branch/
Let’s have some fun with maths
Our friend and long-time IET collegue Derrick Willer is running two webinars; based on Derrick’s new book “Sums. They’re Math Magic” this webinar engages teenagers and younger children in some fun activities with Maths. (Please click “Continue Reading” button below to show this post, the dates & times and activate…
Recording of February Meeting available
The February 2022 meeting ‘Coventry Digital Archive’ is now available from this link. Thanks again to Dr Benjamin Kyneswood, Coventry University’s Director of Coventry Digital.
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